This paper locates the analysis of ONLINE SPEECH COMMUNITIES in the wider
context of speech communities and COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION (CMC),
supplementing the rather scarce analysis of online speech communities. ...

Language, as a strategic policy-planning tool, can be meticulously controlled to frame policy decisions and condition policy interpretation. This thesis analyzes Federal Reserve policy rhetoric to understand how the Federal ...

A rapid linguistic shift is happening in the Chinese community in Argentina, one of
the newest immigrant groups in the country. Second- and third-generation Chinese-Argentines
are quickly abandoning their home language ...

This thesis explores second generation South Asian Americans' relationships with their heritage
languages; specifically, the ways in which these relationships might challenge current convention
regarding the categorization ...

The impetus for this thesis was a 2011 field methods paper that focused on the -/nd
particle in Hindi, and the evidence for labeling Hindi an ergative-absolutive
language. Preliminary study of the Hindi dataset yielded ...

In this thesis, I demonstrate that Articulatory Phonology, a theory of phonological representation,
can be fruitfully combined with Optimality Theory, currently the most widespread
theory of phonological processes, to ...

In this thesis, I address the issue of whether there is a difference between listening to and reading a book, and how much it is possible to determine if one is better than the other for the purposes of retaining information. ...

This paper examines the role of language in advertising by presenting two groups of subjects (one of college students, one of eighth grade students) with a collection of phrases used in actual product
promotions and ...

The World Wide Web is a major technological advance that has profoundly
changed the way people live, in a manner that was unprecedented at the time of its
invention in 1989. The underlying code that makes it work, that ...

The analysis of systems of tone, stress, and intonation in the world's languages is a
center of debate in modem phonology. While prototypical cases of stress languages
such as English and tone languages such as Yoruba ...

Through a close-viewing of a comedy sketch by Bill Ennis and an
analysis of other documented sources of signed humor, this paper
compares and contrasts spoken and signed humor by seeing how well
the current linguistic ...

In this paper I will be discussing the Hungarian Vowel Harmony System. First I will give a brief
discussion of the Hungarian Suffix System, then introduce the Vowel Harmony System. Next I will
explain the field research ...

Creaky voice. a vibratory phonation produced when the cartilage from the front and back of the
larynx are pressed closely together (Zirnrnan 2013), has received significant media attention
in recent years, particularly ...